GOD'S PRESENCE IS NOT SUPERSTITION

The glory was captured by a heathen and carnal nation. It was a nation that did not know the glory and never stood in the glory of the presence of God. The ark was captured because the children of Israel lost the ability to understand the glory, and to them, the ark became something of a superstition. Although the Philistines lived a carnal life, there was no longer a difference between the Philistines and the Hebrews because of the way that they saw their lives and their fleshly environment. The Philistines thought that if the ark of the covenant could come in their midst, God would give them victory.

I have watched Christians, and most think that things cannot happen to them if they do certain activities. If we have no relationship with God and the presence of God is not visible in our life, the things we think are Godly, might just be a superstition to us.

We think that if we pray for two hours every morning it will keep us safe. When we pray, it is that we might know him in the power of the resurrection and that the glory might fill our lives. I have met many Hindu men who will pray much longer than Christians. I have met Buddhists who fast for months, and their fasting does not bring them closer to God, but it is a superstition. They have developed a religious lifestyle and they think it is going to keep them safe.

We are not secure because we have a belief system developed through indoctrination and education. God is going to shake us up. Young men and women who were raised in The Church are becoming bitter, who should be the generation of tomorrow and whose mothers and their fathers have paid sacrifices for what God wanted to do, but they are bitter because there have been victories without glory.

When we do not understand God’s presence and we only know about the glory from certain aspects, it does not mean that we know how to deal with it on a personal level. We may know about it and have seen it operating in some way, and we may know that it makes us feel good, but we know only in a limited way. During David’s time, not everyone had the qualifications to touch the ark.

If we do not have the qualifications to come into a certain level beyond the foundation, and our flesh wants to touch it, it will always bring death; death to ministry, death to relationships, death to purpose and death to our spiritual life because we want to go where flesh cannot go. I have wondered many times why David put the ark of the covenant on the ox cart. The children of Israel hungered and cried for God, but they forgot that the glory was the ark of the covenant, and for twenty years it was blocked in a house. It did not bring any blessing. It was a superstition that people talked about, but it had no power in Israel.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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